Educating Black Boys: It Takes Everything We Are Not Doing

Educating Black Boys: It Takes Everything We Are Not Doing: ritical supports in childhood help mold young black boys into successful men, Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund, argues at the Huffington Post. She says families, schools, churches, communities and government agencies need to do more to help them achieve greater academic success.

"You don't have to be a Black male educator to teach Black students. You just have to love Black male children and believe that they have unlimited potential and opportunity, and they're just as smart and capable as anyone else and caring. And it's hard. Sometimes you have to go the extra mile," said Michael Tubbs, an extraordinary young leader and teacher who is part of the Children's Defense Fund youth leadership development movement. "It takes school, church, neighborhood, government, partnerships. It takes relevant curriculum. It takes love. It takes trial and error. It takes being creative. It takes messing up. It takes getting back up. It just takes everything we're not doing now."